NGO brokers between local needs and global norms
Trajectories of development actors in Burkina Faso
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4865247 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kathrin Knodel (0000-0002-2631-3692, Goethe University Frankfurt, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 298-315 |
| Publication date | 2021-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cultural Dynamics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0921-3740 • E-ISSN: 1461-7048 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/09213740211029683 |
| OpenAlex | W3187034667 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 29 |
Local NGO brokers in Africa and beyond negotiate and mediate between (inter)national donors and potential beneficiaries within their communities. They translate local needs into development projects to make them suitable for international donors. This article looks at two main conditions that influence their work: First, windows of opportunity, which open and close according to structures and institutions beyond their sphere of influence; and second, their personality and skills. Based on two case studies from Burkina Faso, this article offers insights into biographies and life stories of such brokers where engagement leads to a distinguished lifestyle that contains aspects of cosmopolitanism and distinctiveness
Cosmopolitanism · Negotiation · Optimal distinctiveness theory · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Sociology · Work (physics · African Studies and Ethnography · Agriculture and Rural Development Research · Engineering · Law · Migration, Identity, and Health · Psychology · Social Psychology
NGOs and social movement theory
‘Waithood’
Cultural Entrepreneurship in Africa
Constructing the Future
Adventures in Aidland
Civil society and social movements
Deteriorating Economic Context and Changing Patterns of Youth Employment in Urban Burkina Faso
Living Well’ while ‘Doing Good’? (Missing) debates on altruism and professionalism in aid work
Civil society and state in Africa
Neopatrimonialism in Africa and Beyond
Burkina Faso in the winds of liberalisation
Burkina Faso
Lifeworlds
The role of local brokers in the development system. Experiences with "self‐help projects" in East Africa
What "Development" Does to Work
Colonialism and Civil Society in Africa
Youth Between State and Rebel (Dis)Orders
Civil Society in African Contexts
Life/History
Patrons and Brokers in the East Arctic
Abandoned pasts, disappearing futures
Cultures of Consultancy
Engagements with a Productively Unstable Category
Brokering Transnational Flows of Care
Brokers as Assemblers
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,75 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2025 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |